Hey Wikidot, it feels like you have become disconnected from your users. Many pages appear not updated or abandoned. No one has any idea if you are working on new features, or have disappeared unless something brings down the farm. I also hear that spam is an issue.

Will any of this be addressed? Can you let us know what is going on, what is being planned, and what the future will be? The feedback page has items 'in progress' from 2010. Thats SEVEN years ago.

We are still waiting on answers and waiting on information. Why have you not added a layer of security to joining that will stop most of the bots? Why don't you update? Why do you ignore us? Half of your new users every time I refresh the whats hot page are spam users making spam wikis. How long has this been going on for? Are the majority of the wikis hosted on wikidot just spam? How much space are you wasting hosting these sites instead of communicating with us? No business would find this acceptable. Have you given up on Wikidot?

SEVEN YEARS for the wishlist updates? Do you even have staff anymore? Is that the issue here?

From the bot-fighting point of view I can add some input, as a community administrator.

Wikidot has over the years tried multiple different techniques to block bot users, and thousands are getting automatically blocked and/or deleted by the system when they match certain activity patterns.

Further, thousands more are being deleted manually be community administrators, which trains the automatic tool further and catches the less standard bots (of which there are plenty).

It's hard to explain just how massive the attacks have been in recent times, but you probably have somewhat of an idea from your email notifications if you're watching some of the main sites. About 1-2 weeks ago there was a significant one on the community site.

Everything else: I cannot comment on this, that's for Wikidot to answer.

I have no gripes with the community admins and mods because you have all been doing the best you can and I can only shower you in kudos for it. I do still think a pre-account creation action would be effective rather than trying to do damage control after these accounts are made. But I imagine that is out of everyone's hands here because its not dealing with users but with account/signup nuts and bolts.

I am deeply worried over Wikidot's silence. I have been waiting on purchasing a pro account for some months now in fear that the plug will suddenly be pulled or some sort of incident.

I have been spreading some salt of my own over the last few years - sometimes a subtle jab and other times trying to rub it into an open wound, but it continues to have no effect. I have given up on any new features being added or bugs being fixed.

It's extremely disappointing and makes zero sense to me from a business point of view. I don't know what Wikidot is worth, but I bet it would be worth a whole lot more if they invested in some development resources and started engaging the community. I'd love to see Wikidot end up in the hands of a group who cares and doesn't ignore their user base.

I'll continue to hang out here and help squash whatever spam I can and offer help once in a while, but my enthusiasm is long gone.

Whats so buck wild to me is that there is NO way to contact anyone that has proper control of the site, at least I didn't come up with anything in my digging. I went so far as to try and use the 'contact us' feature on projects the Company owner has been working on (no reply of course).

On the one hand, I wonder if the pushing is causing more silence. On the other, what is the fear here? Is it the hope that Wikidot fades out after having been the poster child held up as credentials to speak at seminars and conferences? Is Wikidot no longer meant to succeed/is being sabotaged via inaction in hopes it goes away?

If they want it to go away, give it to the users who care about it, because it IS a great system. A great system that hosts mostly bot content these days.

In the first time Wikidot had great problems to communicate with their users - after they have installed a dedicated one for communications alone it was a better time and a massive go forwards with implementations an innovations. Sqwark has left wikidot and it is siloence now since this moment.
Peter - he was the CEO for some years and pushed a lot forward in internal technic - is dead.

I do not know the philosophy behind the workload of Wikidot now , the team, the organisation - nobody is answering now on private messages or on mails.